The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1899, Page 23

THE SUNDAY CALL. 28 , TYPICAL WOMEN WHO HAVE TAKEN MOST ACTIVE PART IN THE DREYFUS CASE. Though Not Exactfy at Bottom of the Affair They Had Their Recog- nizedfla@_in Ik : only twice—on thé occasions of her iage and her decease.”” The name of . Dreyfus has been much in the pa- is remarkable how little they to say about her. In spite of ns of certain women journal- rer has given an “Interview.” 1d be kept in ignor- Tace. The little girl ibted. “Papa s In & far-off ng France. Eve ody loves e get so many let reasor to belisve that le fellow—haa long omething different. abit of inquiring: And the a r courage to concoct One day the boy ceased re 1a papa?’ It was a bitter affaire” are of both ddest case is that of ubly bereaved widow lous enemy. Sorrow 1mon sense; her' ve her far from erested counsels of the e her to Rennes to make & sitton of her unhappy state magined that the picture ngs would impress the How Henry would al papers from the Min “to work on after dinner, y beside him. He eces of paper on nstructing” letters Tt i a dozen years ago that Esterhazy she herself did not a Paris taken by assault and given over to the plilage of a hundred thousand drunken soldlers?” is far on the . She sees the duty her to defend her hus- publicatton. In some mys- terfous way, however, they came to see the light of publication; and her dearest ene- my could not wish & greater revenge m the ‘“‘Uhlan's” unfortunate respondent. The Parisians, 1ather timid of the re- doubtable com- mandant, topk it out on Mme. dé Bou- lancy. As for Mme. Es- terhazy, sne has her dl- vorce. Refined and retir- ing, she bore the eating up of her fortune without a murmur. She bore the insult of Esterhazy’s collage with Marguerite Pays. She permit- ted Esterhazy to complain in the Paris papers of her family’s cor- ‘But, mon Dieu, what are you doing?” c e Judge . stinginess and his own sacrifices to : s * gaid Labori, tims — Mme. Esterhazy, I am protest ry mal -l:hc:‘ lr“gz neglected and ashamed; support her—at a d;le when she was » his po! 1A gl % Mme. Laborl, continually giving him money. But when he had Mme. Labort, Dl %' Worrying lest the assassin's the indelicacy to speak of the state of on. bullet should by some obscure ‘er health—and that falsely—as an excuse "O¢ Mme. Dreyfus the most that can be gald is that she is utterly unknown. “A good woman,” says the anclent Banscrit proverb, “gets her name in the newapa- yor his gallantry, Mme. Esterhazy revolted and shut her door forever on the man. Meanwhile Marguerite Quatre-Dolght, as she was once accident affect her husband’s spines Mme. Chapelon, whose only son, the of her old age, iost his- scholarshlp BoU L laughed command- Zola trial, hls own d a dozen criminal {n- t was Marguerite Pays who “A general is i The de- ge girl to the wavered. She for him. BShe It broke Es- t a time we could nave he moaned to her =upon s In London she night around the sup- per tables of the Cafe Royal. . Yet Esterhazy Is & great and somber genius of whom the world has not vet heard the last. To Marguerite he 18 “‘the man who took me from the hell of the Place Blanche.” Then there is Mme. whom Dr. £ time got his st A witness at Rennes rk that will rems make M. E istorical character in France. The witness did not like the company he met at Mme. Bodson’s, and at the second happy to hear i confidante of cked him up” in the ink those people are my the friends of my wife, and you mus that Dreyfus is her love: He wanted to chase Drey- fus from the army, and it was then that the solemn Monsieur de Breuil made the remark that has made the name of Bod- son synonymous with Christian resigna- tion: “T attributed this to his discontent as a wronged husband, and I responded: ‘Monsieur Bodson, if they were to chase out of the French army every officer who has taken his neighbor’s wife perhaps thare would be a famous cleaning up of the lists.” The Bodsons ought to be particularly in- teresting to Americans, because it was at thelr reunions, now so famous, that our own one-time military attache to France, the enigmatic Captain Borup, figured—at least In the eyes of the Information De- partment—as & vague menace to the patrie. Borup served his country, they say, as Echwarzkoppen and Panizzard! served theirs, at risk and peri. Whea ted it out “But cried the . who had “Don’t th friends. They a MHE ANCEY- caught trading forbidden secrets he could not in honor plead the “baby act tell the truth that all the other attac were doing the same thing. S . ed his lot in silence. If this Dreyfus case w tir and personal habits of Czar Russia that a volume on which has just been published in Ger- many, is bound to prove of unust est. The volume is entitled “Czar olas II and His Court,” and the author is Bresnitz von Sydacow. Nicbolas, we are told, is one of the most reserved monarchs that ever sat on a throne. He speaks seidom and briefly and while he is talking his eyes are generally fixed on the ground. He rarely laughs, and does not often even smile. Of danger he has no dread, re- sembling his fearless grand f: ir this respect. and dle for Russia; I care not,” he v days after The Czar's home life is sim- ple. He likes plain food at din- ner, and he sel- dom has many guests at table. He eats quickly, “like all men who are accus- tomed to work a great deal,” and he drinks very little wine. He drives about ina small two- horse carriage, and he wears a uniform almost all the time. In- deed, it is said that he bad no frock coat until he visited Paris a few years ago, and that the court tailor, who was accustomed to make.his uni- forms, was In despair because he knew that his imperial mas- ter would be obliged to wear civil- unwearied worker. mitted to very care- s given an unimpor- tant order e will ask as to the «tanner in which It was carried out. mmer and s the first to in the mo . e is working hard I thers are still cants to shake off all children, and it 1s he seems most : do not contain ls, new libraries cleties. articles a! and new ed OHLY. SIX YERKS LIKE A MASTER A TO THE MEMOKRY FATHE ROM sire to son—from Dionys Ro- mandy, the well remembered, to little Gounod Romandy—has come the masterful muslicia: lent. Another child prodigy has leaped into the glare of public attention. Six-year-old Gounod Romandy Is the latest to arrive. Three thousand people cheered them- selves hoarse at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles last Friday afternoon when a tiny child, with face strangely old for of his tender years, and with hair lor and silky, altogether an odd and almost pathetic little figure, stood in the orches- tra conductor’s chair and drew from a violin the music immured in its soul. Among the many talented Angelenos whose services had been put at the di posal of the programme committee for this big benefit performance for the re- turning boys of Battery D was the youngster, Gounod Romandy. A week ago the committee received this note from the child: “I am Dion Romandy’'s little son Gou- nod. My papa played at the Orpr and if he was alive I know he wo for the returning soldiers. I am years old, but would like to play soldiers’ fund. I wili try my b you be kind enough to let me tak “GOUNOD ROMA The committee accepted Gounod's pro- posal, and events proved its judgment to have been sound. Little Gounod Romandy is one of the two sons left by Romandy pere, leader of the original Hungarian orchestra brought to this coast by Gustav Walters. If ever an inheritance came through blood from father to son, then the love of and ma: tery over music was Dion Romandy’s leg- acy to the boy Gounod. ‘When Gounod Romandy was a year old he showed a passien for music. Then his father bought a small violin for n Gounod promptly discarded all of his oth- er toys for this new and greatly beloved one. From that day Romandy Sr. was teased and begged for “lessons.” When his father would come home Gounod would beg him for “just one little lesson, he had them given to him. s, until the elder Romandy died. Romandy has the artist’s temperament. He is dreamy, sensitive A BOY VIOLINIST WHO S INDEED /& PRODIGY £y OLD, BUL- TS ND | VOTED 1 54 55 R. and Roumania his m- and, Heberling ap- public warned Mm: shown in forci: us. Gounod’s to be d ¢ reat care. Al- “Angeles unteered to education. Tt tion cr appearance at the big benefit affair will d by his doubtless inspire similar offers. With these the widow of Dion Romandy Is as- sured of assistance, and this and time are all that is needed to develop in Gounod Romandy the genius that he bas in such extraordinary measure.